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New Feature Announcements

Announcements for the noteworthy changes made to Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure.

March 2025

Feature Description
Integration with OCI Logging Service With Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure, you can enable or disable capturing of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure service logs using the OCI Logging Service. See Observe Resource Logs with OCI Logging Service for details.
Select AI with Google, Anthropic, and Hugging Face

Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure can interact with AI service providers. In addition to the previously supported providers, Select AI supports Google Gemini, Anthropic, and Hugging Face.

This feature supports having LLMs work with Oracle database by generating SQL from natural language prompts, enabling you to talk to your database.

See Use Select AI to Generate SQL from Natural Language Prompts for information on using Select AI with Autonomous Database.

Dual standby database support in an Autonomous Data Guard configuration

Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure lets you enable Autonomous Data Guard from the Details page of an Autonomous Container Database (ACD) and create up to two standby ACDs. The second standby ACD must be in the same tenancy as the primary ACD. See Add a Second Standby Autonomous Container Database for instructions.

With this release, the previous Autonomous Data Guard Associations model and associated APIs will be deprecated and replaced with the new Autonomous Data Guard Groups model and APIs. All new ACDs provisioned after March 2025 from the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) console will automatically use the new Autonomous Data Guard Groups model. See Knowledge Base for more information.

To transition existing ACDs, customers can migrate to the new model by clicking the Upgrade to Autonomous Data Guard Groups from the ACD Details page on the OCI Console or using the MigrateAutonomousContainerDatabaseDataguardAssociation API.

See Autonomous Data Guard Models to know more details about upgrading to the new model.

February 2025

Feature Description
NFS space utilization With Autonomous Database deployments on Exadata Cloud@Customer, if the backup destination type is NFS, then you can view the NFS space utilization from the ACD details page. The current NFS space utilization is displayed as a percentage along with a status icon.

See View NFS Space Utilization for more details.

Change the backup destination type of an Autonomous Container database With Autonomous Database deployments on Exadata Cloud@Customer, you can change the backup destination type for an Autonomous Container Database which has the automatic backup enabled.

See Edit Autonomous Container Database Backup Settings for more details.

Restore Database to a specific SCN On Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure, you can restore the database to a specific System Change Number (SCN).

See Restore and Recover Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure for more details.

Database Clone from the latest backup On Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure, when you clone the database from a backup, you can choose the Backup clone type as Latest backup timestamp. With this backup clone type, you can clone the database from the most recent backup data that is available.

See Clone Autonomous database from backup for more details.

Oracle Maintained Pipelines

Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure provides built-in pipelines that enable you to export the database audit logs or Oracle APEX workspace activity log to OCI Object Storage in JSON format. These pipelines are preconfigured and can be started by the ADMIN user.

See Oracle Maintained Pipelines for more information.

January 2025

Feature Description
Doc update: Vulnerability Assessment and Security Testing Policies

We have updated the Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure documentation with details about:

  • Vulnerability scans and patching that Autonomous Database frequently performs using commercial vulnerability scanning tools.
  • Security testing policies governing activities such as penetration testing and vulnerability scanning that Oracle customers can perform against their Autonomous Database.

See Vulnerability Scans and Patching and Oracle Cloud Security Testing Policy for complete details.

Support for DELETE_OPERATION procedure in DBMS_CLOUD package. On Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure, you can use DBMS_CLOUD.DELETE_OPERATION procedure to clear the data load entries for the specified operation ID logged in the user_load_operations or dba_load_operations tables in your schema.
X11M systems available for Autonomous Database on Oracle Public Cloud and Autonomous Database on Exadata Cloud@Customer deployments.

When you create Autonomous Database deployments on Oracle Public Cloud or Exadata Cloud@Customer, you can deploy to X11M Exadata Database Machine systems.

For details about the capacities and characteristics of the X11M systems supported by the Autonomous Database, see Exadata X11M Systems.

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